A microblogging-based approach to terrorism informatics: Exploration and chronicling civilian sentiment and response to terrorism events via Twitter

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-59

  Cheong, Marc ^a   Lee, Vincent C S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Civilian response; Data mining; Demographic analysis; Microblogging; Sentiment analysis; Terrorism informatics; Twitter; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; FLOW VISUALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TERRORISM; VISUALIZATION;

CIVILIAN RESPONSE; DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; MICROBLOGGING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; TERRORISM INFORMATICS; TWITTER;

DATA MINING;

EID: 85027928226     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-010-9273-x     Document Type: Article

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